It helps to have a 1914 mindset and probably a lot of practice. Curiously, before WWI, only one country that I'm aware of issued high-top lace-up boots for their soldiers and that was Denmark. They also had the equally curious habit of simply rolling up their pants legs and not "blousing" them.
U.S. soldiers of that era typically wore canvas leggings, also spelled without the g (which spell check won't permit). They seem to have been issued in quite a variety until finally replaced by combat boots around 1943 or 1944. Some had leather on the inside for mounted men.
U.S. soldiers of that era typically wore canvas leggings, also spelled without the g (which spell check won't permit). They seem to have been issued in quite a variety until finally replaced by combat boots around 1943 or 1944. Some had leather on the inside for mounted men.